Neuroergonomics applied in production Engineering to improve workers' performance and sense of well-being

Abstract

Neuroergonomy, a combination of neuroscience and work ergonomics, is focused on identifying the importance of neurophysiological and behavioral responses to mental states connected to workers' performance. This exploratory research aims to disseminate the advantages of neuroergonomic principles in daily human professional life and apply it in two experiments in Production Engineering to improve the performance and sense of well-being of workers in an assembly line replicated in the laboratory. The methodology involved measuring time during the assembly of a 1:18 scale vehicle in two experiments, one with and the other without neuroergonomic rules. The result showed that for assembly under neuroergonomic concepts of five units of each experiment, there was a reduction of up to six minutes for Experiment #2. It is concluded that the application of neuroergonomic principles can reduce the time of operational activities through the reorganization of elements and rearrangement of the layout, contributing to advances in the application of neuroergonomics in production engineering and for well-beig perception of employees.